(n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.
(n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
(n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge
(n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.
(n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.
(n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople.
(n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
(n.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
(a.) Shaped like a crescent.
(a.) Increasing; growing.
(v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.
(v. t.) To adorn with crescents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histopathological observations demonstrated that OB-5 inhibited the incidence of crescent formation, adhesion and fibrinoid necrosis in the glomeruli by the 41st day.
(2) NGOs and even the Red Crescent are unwelcome: peacekeepers are rebuffed, hospitals doomed to failure.
(3) ANCA-associated vasculitides can be categorized into a number of distinctive clinicopathologic categories, eg, Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, pulmonary renal syndrome, microscopic polyarteritis nodosa, leukocytoclastic angiitis, and necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis.
(4) The second renal biopsy revealed cellular crescents with linear IgG deposition along GBM, a finding similar to the first one.
(5) The purpose of this experimental investigation was to quantify and evaluate the results of different microsurgical techniques in crescentic resection of a corneal wedge.
(6) In CT diagnosis for this type of dissection, cautions should be employed not only in an inhomogenous density area in the mediastinum and pleural cavity but also in the presence of deviation of intimal calcification and relatively high density area of crescent shape in aortic wall on plain CT.
(7) Crescent-shaped Balbiani's vitelline body consists of ribonucleoproteins, lipoproteins, and phospholipids.
(8) There is a crescent-shaped low density area extending forward from the high density area.
(9) The size and the angular tilt of the dark crescent appearing in the subject's pupil are derived as a function of five variables: the ametropia of the eye (Dsph, Dcyl, axis), the eccentricity of the flash, e, and the distance of the camera from the subject's eye, dc.
(10) Air crescent signs were seen in 40% of patients during or after bone marrow restitution.
(11) Coffee bean shaped or crescent shaped yeast-like elements are characteristic of Trichosporon and useful in differentiating Trichosporon from Candida but such histological features are less efficient than the immunohistochemistry in identifying mixed fungal infection.
(12) In group 1, predominant infiltration of macrophages and cellularly crescents were obtained in the glomeruli 7 days after the administration of the cultivated cells.
(13) On the other hand, when BC were ruptured, mononuclear inflammatory cells, mainly LeuM3+ and IoT15+ cells accompanied by significant number of T4+ and T8+ cells, constituted the glomerular crescents.
(14) There was a significant correlation between the intensity of each C3c and C9 deposition in glomeruli and the degree of glomerular adhesion to Bowman's capsules and crescent formation in patients with IgA nephropathy.
(15) The Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) is really one of the few actors left on the ground, along with a handful of national NGOs.” “The LRC volunteers are doing a fantastic job despite the difficult and challenging environment but at some point they will need support,” he said, adding that assessments were ongoing and a potential deployment by federation members from Tunisia was under consideration.
(16) Even though the Xenopus egg does not form a classical gray crescent, due to its particular pigment distribution, the reorganization process which specifies the future embryonic axis resembles that of the Rana egg.
(17) The shapes of false lumina assessed by enhanced CT scans at the time of discharge were categorized in three types; 21 patients (group A) without false lumina of the aorta, or with a small crescentic false lumen in the thoracic aorta (type a), six patients (group B) with intimal flaps and two contrast-material-filled lumina in the thoracic aorta (type b), and nine patients (group C) with expanded false lumina or a false lumen whose margin was convex towards a true lumen in the thoracic aorta (type c).
(18) In living spores posterior vacuole crescentic, in fixed ones it is strongly deformed together with hind pole of spores.
(19) These are the interstitial bodies, which are aggregates of extracellular material, and a kind of fibril or tubule, embedded in a fibronectin matrix and mainly found in the endophyllic crescent.
(20) This density was crescent-shaped in longitudinal sections, and a continuous band in cross-sections.
Luna
Definition:
(n.) The moon.
(n.) Silver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having given his marker the slip, Sturridge picked up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, turned Antonio Luna inside-out, then somehow shimmied his way around Brad Guzan and fired the ball high into the roof of the net in order to avoid two defenders who'd rushed back to man the line.
(2) One of the best staining methods to demonstrate NIB, for example, is to exhibit it as a reddish body stained by Luna, with a contrast of HBsAg counterstained purple in color by aldehyde fuchsin after thiosulfation.
(3) Luna's day went from bad to worse when he handed possession to Cleverley midway inside the Villa half.
(4) In one scrap of paper he imagines "as background, perhaps: An electric fête recalling the decorative lighting of Magic city or Luna Park or the Pier Pavilion at Herne Bay ..." So Herne Bay inspired him to realise the iconic work on glass rather than canvas.
(5) China has cemented its control over Xinjiang very significantly in the past decade… [but] the methods that China is employing to assimilate Xinjiang are leaving a lot of dead bodies on the ground.” Additional reporting by Luna Lin
(6) Megakaryocytic, myelocytic and eosinophilic lineages were further demonstrated by Factor VIII immunostain, chloroacetate esterase and LUNA-E histochemical stain, respectively.
(7) Evidence for the molten Earth at its accretion time has been accumulated through the geochemical investigations and the observations of the surfaces of planets by space probes such as Venera 8, Mariner 9, Surveyor, Luna, and Apollo.
(8) With Antonio Luna apparently AWOL, it's left to goalkeeper Brad Guzan to charge off his line and avert the danger.
(9) I want to be a congressman – to criticise, to supervise the corrupt government.” “We must change our nation, not our nationality.” Additional reporting by Luna Lin.
(10) Antonio Luna, left-back on the actual home team has just been booked for what I think was a foul on Jordan Henderson.
(11) Comparisons were made among Kligman's modification of Luna's mast cell stain for elastin, Unna's orcein stain with or without potassium permanganate preoxidation, and Gomori's aldehyde fuchsin stain with potassium permanganate preoxidation.
(12) Is the country’s reputation more important than improving people’s lives?” Additional reporting by Luna Lin.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer Pedro Luna, Santa Cruz fan known as Tricolor Jesus, Recife.
(14) A chordotonal organ occurring in the posterior metathorax of an atympanate moth, Actias luna (L.) (Bombycoidea: Saturniidae), appears to be homologous to the tympanal organ of the noctuoid moth.
(15) Abortion rights around the world – interactive Read more “Her case is emblematic and motivates many people,” said Rosana Ríos of the Grupo Luna Nueva, which is one of the participating organisations in the protest.
(16) Luna will soon be relocated into the current alligator exhibit.
(17) Or a Christmas.” I feel that eventually Thanksgiving will be nothing but a holiday on a calendar Brian Sozzi, retail analyst Luna, while keeping her job, is making Walmart hear her.
(18) 5.15pm BST Aston Villa v Liverpool line-ups ... Aston Villa: Guzan, Lowton, Vlaar, Okore, Luna, Bacuna, Westwood, Delph, Weimann, Benteke, Agbonlahor.
(19) Double-barreled microelectrodes selective to either potassium or sodium were used to determine the transepithelial potential difference (VTE) and the intraluminal activity of potassium (alpha LuK) or sodium (alpha LuNa) in the early distal tubule (EDT) of Triturus waltlii in vivo; luminal activities were compared with the corresponding plasma ion activities, alpha PtK and alpha PtNa.
(20) Sahinovic and two teammates - Luna Pajer and Verena Breit - were hit by the shuttle bus while walking in athletes village in Baku on Thursday.